Abdulaziz Al FarsiAbdulaziz Al Farsi, born in Shinas, Oman, in 1976, is a medical oncologist. He began writing in 1998 and is the author of six collections of short stories and two biographical works. Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs is his first novel. Nancy Roberts is thetranslator of Salwa Bakr's The Man from Bashmour (AUC Press, 2007), for which she received a commendation in the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Translation. Her most recent translation is Ibrahim Nasrallah's Time of White Horses (AUC Press, 2012). Read More Read Less